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Tick.... tock, tic..... tac, second by second, minute by minute turning into the past. You can't stop it, you can't change it. Either you are passively watching some sequences of your life or you are just enjoying your happy moments on the maximum. It is up to you, up to your attitude, percieving the reality, way of thinking. It is up to you, how you have decided to use the most precious thing you were given - your time...

Time is actually like an awesome magician, who can change your life upside down by one Abracadabra. Just one second and you might become the happiest parent holding your newborn baby, just one second, when you see the result of the exam with the grade F. Just one second, when they call you and announce you somebody closed passed away. Just one second, when you sa YES to your partner forever.

Sometimes we may catch ourself realizing that time goes suddenly so fast or slow. How come? Of course that if we go through the unbearable pain, we percieve every second like an hour but sometimes we just wonder, how come that the same time period is longer than it was yesterday. Isn't it weird? Such things of course might force us to ask – What if there is no time?

As we know in the past people decided to meassure time, to make the things more understandable, to explain many physical laws and to make some order. I bet that in the stone age millions of the years ago people didn't care, if they woke up at 8am or 10am :-D They just knew that day follows the night and later they started with some primitive callendars.

The thing is that we are taught from the early age to understand the reality like.. time is flowing forward to the future – to the some point. Anyway, when did the time started existing and since it has started when it might end? We believe we were given time but it might be just process of our human body, which cause that something evolves from the point of the birth to the death. Getting older doesn't need to mean that this is the result of time, it might be just the result of this process we all are going through. Mind blowing, right? In fact, the scientists came up with the theory that time doesn't exist, which was sort of based on the Einstein's theory of relativity but also they were trying to understand, what is this NOW we are living in and why we are not able to move back to the past, to the something, what has already happened. When I read about it, it made me so confused that I almost forgot, if I live now or in the future :D Anyway, if one day somebody breaks the speed of the light, maybe then we will be smarter...

... and now let me add few TIME IDIOMS:

Work against the clock – to work really hard with knowing that you lack time or there is deadline.

We worked against the clock on our project because on Monday our boss will check it.

Lose track of time – to be so interested in something that you forgot about what is going on – to forget the time.

She was studying so hard that she lost all track of time.

Keep up with the times – to be updated, modern.

My mom bought recently tablet to keep up with the times. (poor dad) :D

Take your time - guess you all know it, dear chatters :-) - to give time to the sb to do their stuff in the peace :-)

Take your time, Johny! Don't finish your lunch in two minutes as usual!

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